REPORT. 



Ik presenting the Forty-Ninth Report of the Whitby 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, it will appear 

 that the last year in particular has heen a year of 

 progress, the extension of the Museum, at both ends 

 of the building, being carried out to completion. The 

 addition of glass cases, which the enlargement demand- 

 ed, are placed in the new parts ^ while the increased 

 accommodation can be duly appreciated by contrasting 

 the hitherto crowded slate of the Collection with the 

 spaces and fittings now at command. To many of the 

 larger objects or specimens requiring more room, a 

 better position will now be assigned — as to those in the 

 ethnological section, for instance, with its figures 

 mythological and otherwise, its showy examples of 

 costumes, and its implements belonging to various 

 tribes, which, on the whole, have hitherto lacked that 

 advantage for due exposition. To form the Collection 

 of a nature as local as possible is a right commendation; 

 it being observed, that as the smaller museums are not 



